All through school we learned about how great Christopher Columbus was. We learn about the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, but like with any subject, certain things are left out that our adolescent minds are not prepared to receive. Because how do you tell a group of 8-year-olds that the man who effectively discovered a continent by accident was a mass murdering psychopath? We don’t. We lie, cover up, and talk about anything except for this one brutal fact. We help our children remember how great Columbus was with a rhyme: